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most citedNonlinear Subsystem-based Adaptive Impedance Control of Physical Human-Robot-Environment Interaction in Contact-rich Tasks

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cs.RO2026

Actuator-Aware Inverse Kinematics with Joint-Limit Admissibility for Torque-Controlled Redundant Robots

Mohammad Dastranj, Mahdi Hejrati, Jouni Mattila

This paper proposes actuator-aware inverse kinematics for torque-controlled redundant robots under joint-limit constraints. In the considered architecture, the inverse-kinematic ou…

eess.SY2026

Adaptive Modular Geometric Control of Robotic Manipulators

Mahdi Hejrati, Amir Hossein Barjini, Gokhan Alcan +1

This paper develops an adaptive modular geometric control framework for robotic manipulators with uncertain inertial parameters. The manipulator is decomposed into rigid-body and j…

cs.RO2025

Full-Dynamics Real-Time Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of Heavy-Duty Hydraulic Manipulator for Trajectory Tracking Tasks

Alvaro Paz, Mahdi Hejrati, Pauli Mustalahti +1

Heavy-duty hydraulic manipulators (HHMs) operate under strict physical and safety-critical constraints due to their large size, high power, and complex nonlinear dynamics. Ensuring…

cs.RO2025

Immersive Teleoperation of Beyond-Human-Scale Robotic Manipulators: Challenges and Future Directions

Mahdi Hejrati, Jouni Mattila

Teleoperation of beyond-human-scale robotic manipulators (BHSRMs) presents unique challenges that differ fundamentally from conventional human-scale systems. As these platforms gai…

cs.RO2025

All-Electric Heavy-Duty Robotic Manipulator: Surrogate-Enhanced Modeling and Adaptive Modular Control

Amir Hossein Barjini, Mohammad Bahari, Mahdi Hejrati +1

This paper presents a unified system-level modeling and control framework for an all-electric heavy-duty robotic manipulator (HDRM) driven by electromechanical linear actuators (EM…

cs.RO2025

Desired Impedance Allocation for Robotic Systems

Mahdi Hejrati, Jouni Mattila

Virtual Decomposition Control (VDC) has emerged as a powerful modular framework for real-world robotic control, particularly in contact-rich tasks. Despite its widespread use, VDC…

cs.RO2025

Robust Immersive Bilateral Teleoperation of Beyond-Human-Scale Systems with Enhanced Transparency and Sense of Embodiment

Mahdi Hejrati, Pauli Mustalahti, Jouni Mattila

This paper presents an immersive bilateral teleoperation framework for beyond-human-scale manipulators, combining motion/force transparency with enhanced operator embodiment throug…

cs.RO2024

Impact-Resilient Orchestrated Robust Controller for Heavy-duty Hydraulic Manipulators

Mahdi Hejrati, Jouni Mattila

Heavy-duty operations, typically performed using heavy-duty hydraulic manipulators (HHMs), are susceptible to environmental contact due to tracking errors or sudden environmental c…

cs.RO2023★ 11 cited

Orchestrated Robust Controller for Precision Control of Heavy-duty Hydraulic Manipulators

Mahdi Hejrati, Jouni Mattila

Vast industrial investment along with increased academic research on heavy-duty hydraulic manipulators has unavoidably paved the way for their automatization, necessitating the des…

cs.RO2023★ 12 cited

Nonlinear Subsystem-based Adaptive Impedance Control of Physical Human-Robot-Environment Interaction in Contact-rich Tasks

Mahdi Hejrati, Jouni Mattila

Haptic upper limb exoskeletons are robots that assist human operators during task execution while having the ability to render virtual or remote environments. Therefore, the stabil…

cs.RO2022★ 10 cited

Physical Human-Robot Interaction Control of an Upper Limb Exoskeleton with a Decentralized Neuro-Adaptive Control Scheme

Mahdi Hejrati, Jouni Mattila

Within the concept of physical human-robot interaction (pHRI), the most important criterion is the safety of the human operator interacting with a high degree of freedom (DoF) robo…

eess.SY2022

Neuro-Adaptive Boundary Force Control of Dual One-Link Flexible Arms with Unmodeled Dynamics and Input Constraints

Mahdi Hejrati

The primary purpose of this article is to accomplish safe grasping task by means of dual one-link flexible manipulators. In order to design a force-sensor-less force control, the d…

cs.RO2022★ 7 cited

Decentralized Nonlinear Control of Redundant Upper Limb Exoskeleton with Natural Adaptation Law

Mahdi Hejrati, Jouni Mattila

The aim of this work is to utilize an adaptive decentralized control method called virtual decomposition control (VDC) to control the orientation and position of the end-effector o…